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architecture and design magazineSat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Wooden home by Yoshichika Takagi features attic bedrooms and a translucent sunroomhttps://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/19/house-skinkawa-yoshichika-takagi-japan-house-shaped-rooms-translucent-sunroom/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/19/house-skinkawa-yoshichika-takagi-japan-house-shaped-rooms-translucent-sunroom/#respondSat, 19 Dec 2015 12:00:03 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=821366Corrugated plastic surrounds a sunroom at one end of this timber-framed residence by Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi, which also features a pair of house-shaped bedrooms (+ slideshow). Takagi designed House in Shinkawa for a residential neighbourhood in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture. The building is split into two parts – a well-insulated wooden living area and a terrace encased in the translucent

]]>Corrugated plastic surrounds a sunroom at one end of this timber-framed residence by Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi, which also features a pair of house-shaped bedrooms (+ slideshow).

Takagi designed House in Shinkawa for a residential neighbourhood in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture. The building is split into two parts – a well-insulated wooden living area and a terrace encased in the translucent polycarbonate plastic.

"This is a house with a space that looks like an interior as well as an exterior," said Takagi. "We call it a terrace because it is a half-exterior space that is bright and open."

"From spring to autumn, it works as a part of the living space. And in winter it works like a glasshouse, which keeps off the severe cold," he added.

The house has a footprint of just 53 square metres, a measure intended to keep construction costs low. Half of this area is occupied by the semi-sheltered terrace, which offers some protection from the climate.

The two parts of the house are connected by a set of sliding glass doors, giving the house a "continuous relationship and a discontinuous relationship with the indoor space at the same time," according to the architect.

"Continuity contributes to make the small house feel spacious, and discontinuity contributes to make the indoor space thermally compact," added Takagi.

In the timber portion of the dwelling, an open-plan living space surrounds a staircase in the centre of the plan, with a skylight above.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/19/house-skinkawa-yoshichika-takagi-japan-house-shaped-rooms-translucent-sunroom/feed/0House I by Yoshichika Takagihttps://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/10/house-i-by-yoshichika-takagi/
https://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/10/house-i-by-yoshichika-takagi/#commentsThu, 10 Mar 2011 17:52:45 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=120111Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed this house surrounded by car parks in Akita, Japan. Called House I, the project involved enclosing the kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms and storage in interconnected boxes. The spaces between these volumes form courtyards, corridors and living spaces. See also: House K by Yoshichika Takagi More Japanese houses on Dezeen »

The site is in the centre of Akita City where urban functions are situated. Despite its urban location, this is a special place as it is surrounded by car parks.

Considering that the space is exposed to public eyes in all four directions, it is essential to sustain the elements of privacy, but at the same time, our aim is to drop frontality from its façade.

In order to keep privacy, it is sensible to keep the rooms within the enclosure, and it also helps with the indoor environment in the northern climate.

However, enclosure would give a closed feeling, hence the task is to find a way to layout spaces that are closed enough to keep privacy and would also at the same time give an extensive feeling to the space outside.

First, we made a list of facilities that would require enclosure; kitchen, bathroom, toilet, bedroom and storage room, all of which would be enclosed in box-shaped spaces. A collection of these spaces are gathered like pleats, which create many gap areas in various sizes.

This complex structure of these gap spaces gives depth to the whole place as well as an illusion that there is more space beyond what is visible.

The frames installed in the walls of the boxes overlap with one another, and the whole place looks like a combination of facing mirrors depicting different sceneries.

We designed this house on simple rules based on 2 factors: rooms that need to be enclosed should be kept in boxes and rooms that do not need to be enclosed are in the gaps between boxes.

By applying these rules, the space is presented with a complex structure that gives a feeling of extensive space.

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https://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/26/house-k-by-yoshichika-takagi/#commentsFri, 26 Mar 2010 12:57:36 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=71561Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed a house in Sapporo, Japan, where the interior is divided by a series of wooden structures with pitched roofs. Called House K, the project forms platforms and mezzanines on top of the house-shaped rooms, which are arranged around a central kitchen. The information below is from Takagi: Interweaving Space

Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi has completed a house in Sapporo, Japan, where the interior is divided by a series of wooden structures with pitched roofs.

Called House K, the project forms platforms and mezzanines on top of the house-shaped rooms, which are arranged around a central kitchen.

The information below is from Takagi:

Interweaving Space Between ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’

For this residential housing project, the client desired an open space within an indoor environment. But at the same time, one of the other conditions was that it should reveal the house shape on the exterior.

This was on account of the client’s wishes, as they liked the village feeling of being surrounded by other residential houses, but the actual site was in the regular residential area surrounded by manufactured houses.

Considering the cold climate in Hokkaido, it didn’t seem to be the most appropriate solution to make a wide open interior space as outdoors, yet, keeping the house shape on the exterior.

We tried to see if we could design a space that would be ‘indoor’ (which was closed in terms of the thermal environment) but would give a feeling of being ‘outdoors’ as a backdrop within the building.

The given condition of making an open indoor space led directly to the idea of making house-shaped indoor rooms. If these house shapes were scattered, it would give a village-like view.

The shape of a house is a code for dividing space indoors and outdoors, and a village is a code that implies outdoors.

By using these codes, we thought that an interweaved scenery of indoor and outdoor would be made possible.

After some trials, it seemed that a set of more than 3 house shapes would give a village feeling, which would potentially create a relationship between indoor and outdoor.

If we could cover these entirely with a bigger house shape, this would function as an indoor space in terms of thermal environment.

Eventually, we managed to create a interweaved scenery between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’ by placing 6 house-shaped profiles within one large exterior that envelops the entire place.

One of the six house shapes was made into an outdoor terrace.

Indoors, there would be a village-like view using the help of the code for outdoors, inside the building.

This kind of control functions to blur the definition of ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’, and this is where interweaving takes place.

As a container, we made those big house shapes as interior, but when people actually live there and use the space, the feeling of the interior switches between an indoor space to an outdoor space.

It would only be then that this idea of an interweaved living space would be expressed and perceived.